The Chinese Literary Canon

This work was selected as "One Hundred Excellent Books Recommended to National Teenagers in 2014" by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television.The Writer Yu Qiuyu traces a bright line through the verybest writing that China has produced- from theoracle bones,through the first poems, the first philosophers, the great historians, to the ultimate stylists of Tang Dynasty, and into the 20th century. Presented in the warm, distinctive voice of Yu Qiuyu,The Chinese Literary Canon weaves a thread inand out of history.Yu introduces his rcaders to theindividuals who transformed the canon-the YellowEmperor, the great historian Sima Qian, Cao Cao, LiBai,Du Fu,and Cao Xueqin-and the world in whichthey lived,explaining their motivations and the evolution of Chinese literary style.